ARRM (Another Gamelist, Roms manager, and Scraper for Recalbox, Batocera, Retropie, RetroBat, EmuELEC, Emulationstation)

General

• Home

• Stay in touch

• Features

• The scrape engines used by ARRM

• Changelog

• Download & Install ARRM

• How to make ARRM portable

• Getting started with ARRM

• Choice of language for the interface and texts

• Select your favorite systems

• Interface presentation

• Application Settings

• Media Screenscraper Assignment

• List of gamelist tags recognized by ARRM

• Screenscraper error messages

• ARRM Screenshots

• List of tutorial videos

• FAQ & Errors

• Thanks

• Donations

• Text Discord

Scrape

• Check that the systems extensions are declared in the systemes_extensions.txt file
• Update your configuration files with new systems
• Check if your systems are declared in the scrape engine parameters files
• Prevent MD5/CRC32 calculation for certain file extensions
• The scrape engines used by ARRM
• Identify on Screenscraper
• Media Screenscraper Assignment
• Launchbox media assignment
• Media assignment for other Scrape engines
• Choose the language of the media and texts
• ARRM settings for Batocera, Retrobat, Recalbox etc...
• How to setup ARRM for es-theme-Reload Theme
• Manage scrape profiles
• Select favorite systems

• Scrape Roms
• Scrape with Screenscraper
• Scrape with multi-threads
• Scraping with Screenscraper on multiple platforms
• Scrape with GameTDB
• Scrape with MobyGames
• Scrape with LaunchBox
• Scrape with GOG
• Scrape with IGDB
• Scrape with Steam-DB
• Scrape with HFS-DB
• Scrape with TheGamesDB
• Scrape with ArcadeItalia

• Compose Image

• How to configure ARRM to recover media for Retroarch
• Scrape only missing Artworks (media)
• Scrape missing texts
• Scrape only texts
• Scrape some media
• Scrape some texts
• Grab <rotation> tag for TATE mode

• Auto validation of games for engines other than Screenscraper

• Screenscraper cannot find a game
• Retrieve images already scraped to create your gamelist.xml
• My system names are different or I want to add a system, how to scrap?
• Customize your subfolders with image and description
• Update image/description for Scummvm games in Batocera
• Recover gamelist.xml after ARRM crash
• Ignore green (empty) boxbacks

Overlay

• THE BEZEL PROJECT
• Recover System and Game Overlays
• Generate your own Overlays
• Create Videos with Overlay
• Resize existing overlays
• Delete/Archive Unused Overlays
• Convert Recalbox Overlays to Batocera

Template

• Templates available
• Choose your template
• Create your own template for ARRM
• Change template without rescraping : Compose Image
• Add country flags in your Mix image
• Create Videos with Overlay
• Generate Custom Marquees
• Generating Gamesheets

Roms Management

• Check if your systems are declared in the scrape engine parameters files
• Manage some systems as folder or file
• Set folder search depth
• Filter games without certain media
• How to filter ROMS according to their country contained in the file name
• Edit Roms Info
• Put Roms in Hidden, Favorite or Normal
• Find Duplicates
• Filter elements
• Search Items
• Replace values in bulk
• Using REGEX in replacements
• Select some Roms
• How to add an extension: ARRM does not show all my games.
• Remove/Hide file extensions in gamelist.xml
• Add disk number or country without rescraping
• Add CRC32 to be able to netplay on Recalbox
• Move Roms to another folder while keeping scraped info and images
• Move artwork (media) to another folder
• Cleaning Arcade Romsets
• Rename game titles with the help of Datfiles
• Rename Arcade Game Titles
• Rename Artwork (Media) files

Gamelist

• Export to Retroarch (playlist,media,bezel,roms)
• Export to EmulationStation ES-DE (gamelist,media,roms)
• Customize <Provider> section of gamelist.xml
• Delete some METADATA
• Sort gamelist.xml on different criteria
• Export gamelist as Hyperspin, Pegasus, AttractMode, CSV
• Export games to text file in CSV format
• Save gamelist.xml
• Backup your gamelist.xml

Tools

• Check media integrity
• Export to Retroarch (playlist,media,bezel,roms)
• Export to EmulationStation ES-DE (gamelist,media,roms)
• [ES-DE] Linking existing EmulationStation files to EmulationStation DE
• [ES-DE] Scrapping and playing PlayStation 3 games without renaming folders
• Export to other devices (OnionOS...)
• Simple Wheels Generator
• Check if your systems are declared in the scrape engine parameters files
• Translate descriptions
• Update config files
• Save and Restore ARRM Configuration
• Sort es_systems.cfg file
• Delete unused images and videos
• Compose your Mix image with Mix'Me
• Change emulator and core per game
• Find the best emulator/core for Arcade games
• Automatically change emulator and core for Arcade games
• Create .M3U files for multi-disc Roms
• Add Roms in collection
• Compress videos to save storage space
• Create HTML pages from your ROM collection with ARRM
• How to use ARRM cache
• Remove image file suffixes

Various

• Tags lost in gamelist after playing a game